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lantairvleaMonday I put Paris in the false shafts and we cruised the neighborhood. She had one vauge bucky thought when I corrected her for arguing about going into someone's driveway, but otherwise did really well. We trotted a distance and came back nicely, had dogs bark at us and a couple cars pass. When we got back to the property I was getting ready to pull out my keys to unlock it (we had hitched at the house) I noticed a car coming and sure enough it ran the stop sign. This is a pet peeve of mine and I lashed the whip at the car, well, Paris thought it was for her and her reaction caught me off guard. I was able to hold her against the fence for a few yards, but that corner is full of bufflegrass and a couple of sapling mesquite trees, which makes navigating difficult when you're not trying to contain a horse who thinks you're about to beat her to death with the whip. I lost my feet and lost her. Jumped up and start running after her and, thankfully, a man in a pick-up paused and let me hop into his truck to go after her. She went down to Happy and turned right, the opposite way we had headed this morning. We got about where I thought we needed to be once, jumped off, got my hands on the lines, but since I was bending forward and over it wasn't a good position to pull her back and I was barely at the tail end of the 35' lines (they go by quick when a horse is cantering!). Jumped on the truck again and away we go! She alternated trotting and cantering, I almost had her at one point hanging off the side of the truck next to her, but my arms were too short to be able to grab the lines.
Second time I jumped off I was able to get my hands on the lines and was able to negotiate her to a stop with the help of a fence. She had a look of "O good, someone else is in charge!" when I got her stopped. I thanked my random sumaritan. He said he wished he could give me a ride back and I thanked him again. I can't say enough how much I appreciate what he did.
I do want to say that jumping on/off a moving vehicle is harder than it looks. I am also feeling all the muscles I used the last two days. I apparently hit the ground pretty hard because I ended up with a abrasion and bruising through my shirt (shirt was fine) on my right arm/elbow and a hand-sized bruise on my right hip. My delts and traps are pretty sore as well, but I'll survive. It was my own fault, but I'd like to also blame the idiot who ran the stop sign. I just need to remember that unless I'm in danger of being run over making angry gestures at people running stop signs is not as important as the horse I'm working. I just didn't think she would have that strong of a reaction to the whip, honestly.
The last two days we worked on desensitizing Paris to the whip noise. First I started at the stand still tied with her halter, that was ok. She was a lot more concerned with the closed bridle on and it took a while for her to settle. She really didn't like it while she was long lining, but she'll get over herself eventually. We repeated the same today just tied to the fence and she settled a lot quicker.
Her right fore seemed off Monday night and I dug a rock out of her lateral sulcus and that seemed to help. She was moving well yesterday except for on the rocks walking to and from, which is understandable. Today she looked off on her left fore, but after I cleaned her feet and threw the boots on she was moving fine. I wouldn't be surprised if she had bruising after her half mile jaunt Mondnay on a combination of asphalt and (aggressive, angular) gravel road. I'll ride her tonight during one of the lessons and see how it goes.
I got a check from the insurance for $750 less than the body shop quote. I need to call the body shop and ask how they'd like to proceede and maybe ask the Z's what they want to do. They can't get the truck in until early November anyway.
There's other stuff going on, but that was the Big Thing on my brain.
Tomorrrow I'm taking off to enjoy celebrating another successful year of life (i.e. I'm still alive!).
I'm working on sorting my schedule, which is stressful trying to get everyone in and trying not to overschedule myself. I think I have most everyone sorted. Mostly!
Second time I jumped off I was able to get my hands on the lines and was able to negotiate her to a stop with the help of a fence. She had a look of "O good, someone else is in charge!" when I got her stopped. I thanked my random sumaritan. He said he wished he could give me a ride back and I thanked him again. I can't say enough how much I appreciate what he did.
I do want to say that jumping on/off a moving vehicle is harder than it looks. I am also feeling all the muscles I used the last two days. I apparently hit the ground pretty hard because I ended up with a abrasion and bruising through my shirt (shirt was fine) on my right arm/elbow and a hand-sized bruise on my right hip. My delts and traps are pretty sore as well, but I'll survive. It was my own fault, but I'd like to also blame the idiot who ran the stop sign. I just need to remember that unless I'm in danger of being run over making angry gestures at people running stop signs is not as important as the horse I'm working. I just didn't think she would have that strong of a reaction to the whip, honestly.
The last two days we worked on desensitizing Paris to the whip noise. First I started at the stand still tied with her halter, that was ok. She was a lot more concerned with the closed bridle on and it took a while for her to settle. She really didn't like it while she was long lining, but she'll get over herself eventually. We repeated the same today just tied to the fence and she settled a lot quicker.
Her right fore seemed off Monday night and I dug a rock out of her lateral sulcus and that seemed to help. She was moving well yesterday except for on the rocks walking to and from, which is understandable. Today she looked off on her left fore, but after I cleaned her feet and threw the boots on she was moving fine. I wouldn't be surprised if she had bruising after her half mile jaunt Mondnay on a combination of asphalt and (aggressive, angular) gravel road. I'll ride her tonight during one of the lessons and see how it goes.
I got a check from the insurance for $750 less than the body shop quote. I need to call the body shop and ask how they'd like to proceede and maybe ask the Z's what they want to do. They can't get the truck in until early November anyway.
There's other stuff going on, but that was the Big Thing on my brain.
Tomorrrow I'm taking off to enjoy celebrating another successful year of life (i.e. I'm still alive!).
I'm working on sorting my schedule, which is stressful trying to get everyone in and trying not to overschedule myself. I think I have most everyone sorted. Mostly!
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Date: 2022-09-20 03:42 am (UTC)Today I was able to long line her while switching the whip around and she decided the best option was to slow down instead of tucking tail to run, progress!